Boomi Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management
Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase — one where autonomous, goal-driven agents will decide how fast enterprises grow or fall behind. These intelligent agents need more than algorithms and data — they need APIs. APIs are the fuel that allows agents to discover enterprise capabilities, exchange context, and take secure, auditable action.
For CIOs and technology leaders, this creates both opportunity and urgency. AI projects can drive dramatic efficiency and new revenue streams, but they also magnify the risks of shadow APIs, inconsistent security, and fragmented governance. Organizations must enable rapid API growth while maintaining trust, compliance, and measurable ROI.
It’s in this environment that Gartner has named Boomi a Leader in its 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for API Management1, recognizing Boomi for both its ability to execute and its completeness of vision. Even more significant, Boomi is the only vendor recognized as a Leader in both the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management and the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).2
In my opinion, this recognition as a Leader in both reports validates Boomi’s unique role as the platform for today’s integration challenges and tomorrow’s agentic transformation. And as my colleague Jaime opined in his blog earlier today, also shows that “our vision for an integrated, AI-driven, and agentic future is resonating and that our ability to execute on that vision is stronger than ever.”
From Integration to Intelligence: The API Evolution
For years, APIs have been the backbone of digital transformation, enabling organizations to unlock data and connect applications. In the era of agentic AI, they play an even more critical role. APIs are no longer just technical connectors; they are decision engines. Autonomous agents depend on APIs to gather real-time information and trigger actions across enterprise systems. Without well-designed, well-governed APIs, even the most advanced AI agents are like robots with broken tools — full of potential but unable to deliver outcomes.
This growing reliance on APIs introduces new complexity. To fuel AI innovation, enterprises need more APIs than ever, spanning cloud services, legacy systems, and external data sources. Every new API, however, expands the attack surface and increases compliance risk. Technology leaders face a paradox: they must accelerate API creation to feed AI innovation while simultaneously tightening governance and security. Striking that balance is now a board-level priority.
Boomi’s Upward Trajectory
We believe that the 2025 recognition by Gartner of Boomi reflects a year of rapid innovation and strategic focus.
Unlike vendors that treat API management as a standalone function, Boomi offers a unified platform that spans integration, API management, and agentic orchestration. Our integrated control plane allows enterprises to govern APIs across multiple gateways, enforce consistent policies, and expose capabilities to AI agents without rearchitecting their infrastructure. And our strategic partnerships with organizations including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and ServiceNow help more organizations adopt the platform globally and at scale.
A Platform Built for Speed, Security, and ROI
Boomi’s leadership is grounded in capabilities that directly address CIO priorities:
- Security Designed for AI. Built-in encryption, consumer management, and a comprehensive policy framework provide a secure foundation for agentic use cases, ensuring that APIs powering AI remain trusted and compliant.
- Federated Discovery and Governance. Boomi automatically discovers APIs across hybrid and multicloud environments and provides a single view for policy enforcement — without disrupting runtime performance or forcing costly migrations.
- Accelerated ROI. A rich connector library and intuitive design tools shorten the path from API creation to consumption, enabling both developers and AI agents to deliver measurable outcomes faster.
These capabilities enable organizations to move AI pilots from proof of concept to production in weeks rather than months, without sacrificing governance or security.
Future-Proofing for Emerging Protocols
The next frontier of API management will be shaped by new standards that support intelligent agents. Protocols like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication will define how AI agents securely discover and execute API capabilities across organizational boundaries — a critical requirement for regulated industries. Boomi’s architecture is already MCP-ready, allowing APIs to be safely exposed to MCP-enabled agents while maintaining centralized governance. This future-proof design ensures that the investments enterprises make today will remain relevant as agentic ecosystems evolve.
Business Outcomes for CIOs and CTOs
I feel that recognition in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management is more than a market milestone. It signals that Boomi can help organizations achieve tangible results where AI expectations are high and risk tolerance is low. Customers using the Boomi Enterprise Platform report faster API onboarding, reduced security incidents, and clearer measurement of API-driven ROI. By uniting integration and API management in a single platform, technology leaders can link API initiatives directly to business outcomes — whether that means revenue growth, cost savings, or operational agility.
A Platform for Today and Tomorrow
As APIs become the currency of intelligent enterprises, organizations need a platform that can both connect today’s systems and prepare for tomorrow’s protocols. We believe Boomi’s recognition as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management — and as the only vendor to be named a Leader in both APIM and iPaaS reports — confirms our ability to deliver on both fronts.
Boomi provides the single control plane needed to accelerate AI adoption, enforce trust, and measure outcomes. For CIOs and CTOs charting the path to agentic transformation, Boomi offers more than technology — it offers confidence that the APIs fueling tomorrow’s intelligent agents will remain secure, discoverable, and ready for whatever comes next.
See the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management here, and read more perspectives in posts from Boomi’s Chief Product and Technology Officer and Global VP of Product, API Management.
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1. Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management, Shameen Pillai, Steve Shwent, John Santoro, Nicholas Carter, September 25, 2025.
2. Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service, Andrew Humphreys, Andrew Comes, Keith Guttridge, Allan Wilkins, May 19, 2025.
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